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As a chart-topping singer and one of the most famous pop stars in the world, Rihanna is used to getting her own way.

But four-year-old Theo Brewster soon put a stop to that.

The youngster from Coventry was invited to take a boat ride with the star – an opportunity millions of fans would jump at. But he turned her down, preferring to stay by his mother’s side instead.

Theo was on a family holiday in Rihanna’s native Barbados when she took a sudden shine to him. Emerging from her luxury beachside apartment, she spotted him playing in the sand and told him: ‘Oh, you’re so cute.’

The 25-year-old asked his mother Leona Brewster, 36, if Theo would like to join her on a ride around the bay, on an inflatable attached to a boat.

‘But Theo said, “No, I don’t want to go”,’ said Miss Brewster yesterday. The chance encounter at Paynes Bay on the west coast of the Caribbean island happened on the last day of the family’s trip. They had no idea Rihanna was there and were amazed to see the bikini-clad singer on the same beach as them.

Miss Brewster, a dental nurse, said: ‘Theo was the only little one on the beach at the time and she kept saying to me how cute he was.

‘She was really keen to take him with her but Theo just didn’t want to go.